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One parent in NY thinks so, complained and won: CNSNews.com) – A Christmas-themed event to raise money at a public elementary school in Warwick, N.Y., has been altered to accommodate a parent’s complaints that the program would illegally spotlight a “religious” figure – Santa Claus. “Breakfast With Santa” has since been changed to “Winter Wonderland [...]

I just wanted to comment on a few front page items that popped today and throw out a few others, all in one thread. If you ran across, “Data on U.S. military’s Iraqi operations leaked onto Internet,” IT WAS NOT ME!!!! Yes, I am traveling with my laptop, but the material on the laptop is [...]

The AP is reporting that President Bush wants to “speed” things up in Iraq: President Bush said Thursday the United States will speed a turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces but assured Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that Washington is not looking for a “graceful exit” from a war well into its fourth violent year. [...]

Woman suing because her avocado dip didn’t taste “avocadoey”: That’s the issue in a fraud lawsuit filed Wednesday against Kraft Foods, Inc., by a Los Angeles woman who claims the company’s avocado dip doesn’t qualify as guacamole. “It just didn’t taste avocadoey,” said Brenda Lifsey, who used Kraft Dips Guacamole in a three-layer dip last [...]

But wait, San Fran Nan says there ARE NO TERRORISTS IN IRAQ: ABCNEWS has ‘smoking-gun evidence’ that Iran is supplying Iraq terrorists with weapons: WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense [...]

The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether global warming is real. Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick has her usual entertaining coverage of the case she calls Bush v. Gore’s Movie

ACLU “allowing” public school to screen the movie “The Nativity Story”: ACLU Virginia spokesman Kent Willis said the screenings were “perfectly acceptable” as long as the schools were not sponsoring the event, they were not mandatory, and the Christian group was not getting any special treatment other student organizations would be unable to get. Real [...]

I posted on this before, but last night “20/20″ ran a segment on this topic: To test what types of people give more, “20/20″ went to two very different parts of the country, with contrasting populations: Sioux Falls, S.D. and San Francisco, Calif. The Salvation Army set up buckets at the busiest locations in each [...]

Now that Republicans will be in the minority next Congress, will they move further from their roots? Will a primary concern of regaining the majority result in a move to the Left to gain that end? Will those concerns lead to greater growth in government size and spending? Or, will they realize the error of [...]

I don’t know what to make of this: The report recommends that Mr. Bush make it clear that he intends to start the withdrawal relatively soon, and people familiar with the debate over the final language said the implicit message was that the process should begin sometime next year. The report leaves unstated whether the [...]

August 1992, President George H.W. Bush orders emergency airlifts to President Bush. November 1992, William Jefferson Clinton elected President of the United States. October 1993, Eighteen US Rangers and Delta Force specialists died in a raid in Somalia and over 70 were wounded. October 1993. “A few days after the Rangers’ deaths and the humiliating [...]

At the US Army Infantry School, Ft. Benning, Georgia (hooah!!!), there is a saying “lead, follow or get out of the way.” Well, it is time for the Democrats to lead on Iraq and for Republicans to get out of the way. David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, writes on the predicament that [...]

Newsbusters has the story of this drunken dwarf noting: DeVito then began what was supposed to be mimicry of Bush, making a variety of weird sounds and facial expressions. It’s impossible to really capture DeVito’s performance in words (he’d admitted he’d been up partying all night with George Clooney) Check out the video, and of [...]

This is quickly becoming one of my “big” issues (that is while we’re here, until we’re hit with a large meteor devasting earth, or AQ, embolded by the Democratic party, destroys a city or two): Around 4 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 25, several New York City police officers in plain clothes fired an estimated 50 [...]

Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed state health care coverage for all Californians. “Californians,” under Schwarzenegger’s definition, does not mean legal residents of the state of California. It means free health care for anyone who decides to sneak across the border. Fortunately, the Republican legislative minority is united against this dumb idea, and probably has enough Constitutional [...]